Author: Cesar Brioso, USA TODAY

Little League World Series includes team from Cuba – Bayamo – for the first time. One player is the cousin of major-leaguers Yuli and Lourdes Gurriel.

After an 18 under at the Travelers Championship, Rory McIlroy was unimpressed by TPC River Highlands, saying “technology has passed this course by.”

Yankees radio announcer John Sterling was struck in the forehead by a foul ball and barely missed a beat while calling New York’s win vs. the Red Sox.

Thornton Academy beat Bonny Eagle in a high school basketball game in Maine featuring four lead changes and a buzzer beater in the final 19 seconds.

Negro league baseball, a successful Black enterprise, eventually faded from existence after Jackie Robinson broke MLB’s color barrier in 1947.

The Black press, led by sports writers Wendell Smith and Sam Lacy, advocated to end baseball’s color barrier and integrate MLB in the 1930s and 1940s.

Ralph Ávila, who helped create the Los Angeles Dodgers’ baseball academy in the Dominican Republic in the 1980s, died Monday in Miami at age 92.

From “defections” to “legal” exits, the exodus of baseball players from Cuba has seen many twists and turns as they try to reach the U.S. and MLB.

Martín Dihigo is the only player enshrined in baseball Halls of Fame in at least four countries: the U.S., Cuba, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.